Acoustic Immittance Measures ─ Basic and Advanced Practice

Recognizing that it takes years for new techniques to be adopted into practice, Hunter (otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital) and Shahnaz (audiology, U. of British Columbia) would like to hasten the application of acoustic immittance measure by explaining to practitioners and instructors both the older familiar versions and the recently developed wideband version, also called wideband reflectance and wideband tympanometry. Among their topics are the anatomy and physiology of the outer and middle ear, physical principles of aural acoustic immittance, acoustic stapedial reflex, middle ear measurement in infants and children, and middle ear disorders and case examples. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)